Asian American History and the Making of the U.S. Immigration System

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.03.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction & Rationale:
  2. Content Objectives:
  3. Teaching Strategies:
  4. Classroom Activities:
  5. Annotated Bibliography For Teachers:
  6. Annotated Bibliography For Students:
  7. Appendix On Implementing District Standards:
  8. Notes

Voices of Arrival: Asian American Immigrant Stories in California

Tara Holcomb

Published September 2026

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Notes

1 California Department of Education, "School Profile: Independence High," accessed July 10, 2026, https://www.cde.ca.gov/sdprofile/details.aspx?cds=43694274330name-brand031.

2 California Department of Education, “Title I, Part A School Allocations,” last reviewed July 9, 2026, https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/sw/t1/schoolallocations.asp,canname-brand.

3 Park, Bang, and Edberg, “Language Identity and Sense of Belonging.”

4 Lee and Yung, Angel Island, 6–7.

5 Lai, Lim, and Yung, Island, 8–9.

6 Hernández, City of Inmates.

7 Lee and Yung, Angel Island, 7-8.

8 Upshur, "Magnuson Act Repeals the Chinese Exclusion Act."

9 Reimers, "An Unintended Reform," 15.

10 Choy, Empire of Care.

11 Chan, Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation.

12 Waters and Ueda, The New Americans.

13 Fragomen, "The Illegal Immigration Reform.”

14 Dao, "Refugee Representations.”

15 Kwon, Sun, and Rheem, "Teaching While Becoming.”

16 Park, Bang, and Edberg, "Language Identity and Sense of Belonging," 14.

17 "The Model Minority Myth.”

18 "The Model Minority Myth," par. 1.

19 Gómez et al., "The New Majority.”

20 Yeh et al., "Poverty, Loss, and Resilience," 39.

21 Chinese Americans United for Action, "Lau v. Nichols."

22 Medina, "Fluent in Expression, Rich in Identity,” par. 15.

23 Williams, "Heroes, Rebels, and Victims," 343.

24 Dao, "Out and Asian," 11.

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